Sentences with phrase «about electricity generation»

Faced with growing concerns about electricity generation due to growing demand, the U.S. is on the verge of a coal - fired power plant building boom.

Not exact matches

While wind and solar power have grown in recent years, renewable sources accounted for just 10 % of total U.S. energy consumption and about 13 % of electricity generation in 2015.

In 2014, renewable sources of energy already accounted for about 10 % of total U.S. energy consumption and 13 % of electricity generation.

The contribution to national GHG emissions from electricity generation in Canada is about a third of what it is in the US.

The need of fuel for power has risen in recent times as the country's electricity generation mix has tilted more to thermal power, which this year is expected to account for about 70 percent of the total power generation capacity of the country.

She added that currently Ghana has about 3 percent electricity generation mix from renewable sources.

«I think coal is at a very low place right now,» Barnett said in an interview, noting that coal has lost about 10 percent of its market share for electricity generation as more utilities convert their plants to burn natural gas.

What kind of scale of transformation are we talking about in order to — as far as the electricity generation transmission goes — effect this change?

Consumers account for the largest emissions worldwide, he says: Heating and electricity generation account for about 40 per cent of global CO2 emissions, while transportation accounts for 25 per cent.

Nuclear power provides about a third of the European Union's electricity generation, but the 28 - nation bloc's 131 reactors are well past their prime, with an average age of 30 years.

Worldwide, nuclear energy accounts for about 15 percent of electricity generation; Japan gets nearly 30 percent of its electricity from its nuclear plants.

Meanwhile, just about every automaker is working on a new generation of electric vehicles, including both hybrids and cars that operate entirely on electricity stored in batteries.

Though coal still accounts for about a third of US electricity generation, utility companies are pivoting to cleaner natural gas to replace decommissioned coal plants.

The design is Westinghouse's take on a third - generation pressurized water reactor, and each one produces about 1,000 megawatts of electricity.

The debate about how to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide often focuses on emissions from generation of electricity and transport.

Currently, India produces about 201 gigawatts of power, with more than half of its electricity generation coming from coal.

The team also developed online calculators to facilitate a discussion among policymakers and others about the cost implications of policy actions associated with new electricity generation.

«Our main conclusion is that geophysically - forced variability in wind and solar generation means that the amount of electricity demand satisfied using wind and solar resources is fairly linear up to about 80 % of annually averaged electricity demand, but that beyond this level of penetration the amount of added wind and solar generation capacity or the amount of electricity storage needed would rise sharply.»

It's been great to judge the Generation Green Energy Performance, using new technology like a dance floor that turns movement into electricity makes energy easier to understand, and much more exciting to learn about.»

Available to be powered by electricity, gas or — if in California — hydrogen, the newest generation Clarity is all about options.

But mark my words, right - wingers will start screaming about compensation when all those shiny new gas - fired power plants they're building are threatened with closure when we start thinking seriously about building a modern grid that can shuttle electricity instead of curtailing renewable generation in one area while simultaneously turning on fossils in another.

> I think that your comments have a bit of «begging the question» about them, in suggesting that the necessity of expanding nuclear power to reduce GHG emissions from electricity generation is an established fact, upon which any «debate» about addressing AGW must be based — rather than an unproven assertion to be argued.

Just applied to electricity generation alone it could remove about 30 % of CO2 globally.

Whatever else may be said about nuclear, it is not a «short term» solution for reducing GHG emissions from electricity generation.

What about hydropower, which is billed as a sustainable form of electricity generation because it produces far fewer greenhouse gas emissions than fossil fuels?

Given that a coal - fired electricity generation plant produces about 1 ton of carbon dioxide per megawatt hour, Borenstein estimated that the price of greenhouse gas reductions would have to range from about $ 150 to $ 500 per ton of greenhouse gases to make the current solar PV technology a worthwhile investment when greenhouse gas reductions are considered.

Providing electricity would be an idea solution, but one that will not happen in many generations for reasons that should be obvious — we are talking about societies that burn wood to cook.

It examines questions about the safety and costs of nuclear power relative to coal and other choices for electricity generation, along with the risk of proliferation of nuclear weapons and emissions of greenhouse gases relative to other energy sources.

According to Paul Waide, a senior policy analyst with the IEA and one of the report's authors, «19 % of global electricity generation is taken for lighting — that's more than is produced by hydro or nuclear stations, and about the same that's produced from natural gas.»

Coal, the most carbon - intensive of the fossil fuels, accounts for 70 percent of energy used in China today and is responsible for about three quarters of electricity generation.

Nuclear is about the safest electricity generation technology.

However, you don't want to argue for a rational solution — i.e. cheap nuclear power (which also happens to be 10 to 100 times safer than our currently accepted main source of electricity generation, fossil fuel) and also happens to be a near zero emission technology (in fact much lower than renewables given they need fossil fuel backup, and given solar needs about 10 times as much material per TWh on an LCA basis).

Again you didn't quote what you are referring to, nor explain how it is relevant to the discussion about what is the least cost and fastest way to reduce global GHG emissions from electricity generation.

Clearly, there is more information to be gathered about the environmental impact of extracting natural gas and using it for electricity generation, and I look forward to the conclusion of a currently running EPA study to fill in some of the gaps in our knowledge.

Those units would annually generate approximately 17 terawatts (TWh) of electricity — about 3/4 % of annual electricity consumption in the UK — and produce 150 % of C02 emissions of coal generation and 300 % of gas generation.

Forum participants also heard about new wind energy procurement in Saskatchewan as it moves to 50 per cent electricity generation capacity from renewable energy by 2030, and how the industry is well - positioned to deliver new affordable, emissions - free electricity to Ontario and Quebec when it is needed.

This shift, combined with the other transformations in the energy ecosystem require new ways of thinking about the electricity system and power generation that can be supported by the existing grid infrastructure.

According to the Queensland Renewable Energy Plan, last year only about 150 MW of the state's 12,500 MW of installed electricity generation was coming from solar.

I've explained why solar (currently about 0.2 % of world electricity generation) can not be a major player.

It introduced about 37 megawatts of solar PV generation spread over 265 locations across the city (enough to power more than 9 000 Japanese households) has deployed over 2,000 electric vehicles, and has seen great success in using incentives to limit electricity use.

[9] Nuclear power is about the safest of all electricity generation technologies — nuclear would avoid 1 million fatalities per year by 2050 compared with coal: https://judithcurry.com/2012/08/17/learning-from-the-octopus/#comment-231867

Nuclear is about the safest of all electricity generation technologies: http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/06/deaths-by-energy-source-in-forbes.html

Nuclear is about the safest of all electricity generation»

Natural gas generation produces about a third of the nation's electricity today and provides many of the same benefits as storage since these power plants are easy to switch on and off.

The U.S. DOE's Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that it's the most expensive form of electricity among current technologies for new electricity generation, about $ 396 per megawatthour for PV.

In 2011, installed wind capacity stood at more than 45 GW, and generated almost 120 million megawatthours of electricity, accounting for about 4 % of U.S. installed capacity and 3 % of total U.S. generation in 2011.

By the end of 2011, wind capacity stood at more than 45 GW, about 4 % of U.S. power generating capacity, and provided 3 % of total U.S. electricity generation in 2011.

Assuming average CO2 emissions intensity of 0.8 t / MWh, electricity generation with coal would contribute about 15 Gt CO2 in 2055.

Natural gas generation first surpassed coal generation on a monthly basis in April 2015, and the generation shares for coal and natural gas were nearly identical in 2015, each providing about one - third of all electricity generation.

Given the rising costs of fossil fuels, this would be a PR nightmare for the generation industry, but UBS raises the possibility, echoing our story last year about how electricity business models and markets are effectively broken.